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PHILP a SOLOMONS, PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. 
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IN MEMORIAM. 



Agreeably to notice, Senators^Representativesi and 
many distinguished citizens met on Tuesday, Decem- 
ber 19, 1865, at 3 p. m., in the large reception room 
of the Senate Chamber, for the purpose of testifying 
their deep sorrow at the death of the Hon. Thomas 
CoRWiN, late a United States Senator, member of the 
lower House, Secretary of the Treasury, Minister 
Plenipotentiary to Mexico, and Governor of Ohio. 

Among the honorable gentlemen present, were : 
Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States ; 
Noah H. Swayne, Justice Supreme Court United 
States ; Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State for the 
United States ; William Dennison, Postmaster General j 
Hons. Reverdy Johnson, of Md. ; Garrett Davis and 
James Guthrie, of Ky.; Benj. F. Wade, John Sherman, 
of Ohio ; together with many other Senators, members 
of the House, officers of the volunteer and regular army, 
attaches of foreign embassies and other officials. 

Chief Justice Chase, on being called to the chair, 
arose and said : 



We are assembled, my iVieuds, to take fitting order for 
our last sad duties to what is mortal of Thomas Corwin. 

That name is itself a eulogy; none of us can utter it with- 
out feeling what intellect and what genius, what facts of 
moment in the histories of our State and nation, what gen- 
erosity and nobleness, it represents. It brings him before us 
as he moved up the ascent of life and honor — the gifted 
lawj-er, the representative of his country in the Legislature 
of his State, the Representative of his district in Congress, 
Senator of the United States from his State, then transferred 
to the Cabinet councils of the nation, and finally commis- 
sioner to represent the republic abroad; and. still coining 
aft'ection and commanc^ng respect even from those who, in 
opinion, diftered from him most widely. 

Great were his titles to honor won at the bar, in legislative 
halls, and in executive councils; but at this moment they 
seem to me insignificant in comparison with the admiration, 
love and veneration which gathered around him as a man. 
Let others call him Senator, Secretary, Minister; let us call 
him M.o, our friend. 

But I must not go on. lie has fallen in the midst of 
affectiona.te Ohio friends. They are gathered here nowssdth 
others from other States to do honor to his memory. To 
them, rather than to me, belongs the duty and the privilege 
of uttering what fits this occasion. Taking the chair then 
in obedience to vour call, I will wait vour father sus^irestions. T 

The Hon. Robert C. Sclienk, representing the de- 
ceased's district in Congress, then arose and with much 
emotion said : 

Mr. Chairman: Some friends around me suggest that I 
shall propose some order of proceeding on this sad occasion, 
I will try to do it — but only that, and very briefly. I can- 
not speak of Thomas Coiiwin yet; I am still trying to realize 
him dead, and my heart and mind are heavy and unsettled 
in the attempt to accept that fact. You, Mr. Chief Justice, 
have spoken feelingly, as well as fittingly, of the inexpressible 



loss we have all sustained, of the great loss the country has 
sustained. I can add nothing now to what you have recalled 
of the great character and abilities of Mr. Corwin and of 
his brilliant career as a statesman and a patriot. We all 
stand here with hearts full and oppressed with the thought 
that — 

"Never any more 
Shall man look on him ; never any more, 
In Hall or Senate, shall his eloquent voice 
Give hope to a sick nation. " 

But sir, my soul is fuller still of other remembrances. I 
think of the large heart that has been stilled in death rather 
than of the great brain that has ceased its bus}^ working.' 
His genius, his humor, his eloquence, his extraordinary 
andtvaried powers, and his eminent success in so many lines of 
public service, are at this moment but secondary in my mind 
to my recollection of his admirable qualities as a man. This 
death of Thomas Corwin, as you and many around me can 
■understand, is to me peculiarly 'deep «epersonal grief. He 
was my most intimate, life-long friend. I loved him, and 
I knew better than most others how richly he deserved 
all love. Born myself in Warren, the county of his own 
residence in Ohio from his infancy, I learned to admire him 
from my very boyhood ; and when afterwards, in my rela- 
tion to him of pupil with professional teacher, a closer mu- 
tual knowledge and perfect confidence grew up between us, 
my respect and attachnieut to him were only deepened and 
more firmly and lastingly established. I thank God, that 
from thence onward to his last hour of life that intimacy 
never ceased and that love never was abated. 

But, sir, I must not, cannot go on with these memories, 
pleasant though so mournful. We have met specially to give 
some common and united form of expression to our feelings 
and respect for him who has been taken from us; I therefore 
move that a committee of five gentlemen be appointed to 
report such resolutions as may be appropriate. 

The chair named the Hon. William Dennison, Post- 
master General, Hon. John Sherman, Hon. R. C. 



Sclienck, Hon. R. P. Spalding, and Hon. R. B. Hayes. 
During the absence of the committee Senator Davis, 
of Ky., rose, and with much earnestness said : 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I attended this meeting 
with no other purpose than to show my silent sympathy for 
the occasion that called it together, my sorrow for the sud- 
den death of Mr. Corwiu and my respect for his memory, 
by my presence, but not b}'- my speech. 

Mr. Corwin was a native of Kentucky, and of the county 
of Bourbon, in which I reside, and the frontier dwelling in 
which he was born is still standing, about six miles from mv 
house. The body of a paternal aunt was buried close bf it, 
a cousin german, a woman of the highest respectability, 
has been my neighbor and friend for thirty-five years, and 
her children and his other relatives in his native land are 
among our best people. Of his early life I have learned 
from the traditions of Bourbon county and from his own 
lips. When he was two 3'ears old his father removed from 
that county to Pendleton, in the same State, and while he 
was yet in his early boyhood, from there to the State of 
Ohio. He has recited to me that chapter of his unwritten 
autobiography which treats of "the wagon boy of Ohio," 
and it is replete with freshness and interest. I first saw Mr. 
Corwin in 1832, and was then introduced to him by Mr. 
Clay. He had come over to the home of his infancy to visit 
his Kentucky relations and friends, to see the curling smoke 
again ascend above the gently rising grounds and dense 
forest, which in his childhood had shut out from the view 
of each other the humble habitations of his father and his 
neighbors. The swelling slopes were there, but how changed 
and beautified by the richest carpeting of blue grass ; the 
forest was fast disappearing, the log cabin generally was 
giving way to a better class of farm-house, and a new gene- 
ration of people had come into being ; but Corwin had the 
felicity to hear everywhere the honored name of his father, 
"a household word." 



Tliis visit of Mr. Corwin was before he had ever been a 
candidate for Congress. Mr. Clay, in his attendance upon the 
United States courts, at Columbus, had met with him, and at 
once recognized him as a young man of iirst-rate intellectual 
powers and of the highest promise. Mr. Corwix became 
Mr. Clay's true and life-long friend, and an ardent disciple 
of his school of politics, and he won, and firmly held Mr. 
Clay's highest regard and confidence to the day of his death. 
We had all heard that Mr. Corwin was about to commence 
his first congressional canvass, as the avowed friend and sup- 
porter of Mr. Clay and his policy, and we eagerly inquired 
of him if he had taken the field; in the manner of his own 
unequaled humor he answered, "iTot yet — waiting to be 
asked. We manage such matters somewhat differently in 
Ohio to what you do in Kentucky." But since then, I believe 
it has come to be substantially the same in both States. 

Mr. CoRwm became a candidate and was elected, and 
continued to be re-elected to the House, until he was trans- 
ferred to the Senate. I first took my seat in the House in 
December 1839, whilst Mr. Corwin was still a member of 
that body. He was somewhat indolent and diffident, and 
consequently did not often speak; but when he. aroused 
himself to an earnest effort he always spoke with power and 
effect. During that session Gen. Harrison was nominated 
for the Presidency; among his assailants was a member of 
the House from Michigan, who was also a young militia 
general, and he made his attack by a criticism and condem- 
nation of General Harrison's military operations in the war 
of 1812. Mr. Corwin replied in a speech combining the in- 
vective of Junius with the hTimor and satire of Don Quixote. 
There is no published speech that approaches it in those 
characteristics, and none of any class that ever so generally 
and decidedly influenced the sentiments and votes of the 
American people. It extinguished the assailant, and con- 
tributed largely to the brilliant victory in favor of General 
Harrison at the ensuing presidential election. 

It was also my good fortune to hear Mr. Corwin's speech 
in the Senate in opposition to the Mexican war. I think he 



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advances some erroneous principles in it, but, nevertheless, 
I estimate it as the highest manifestation of his great and 
varied powers. I sat beside Mr. Burt, of South Carolina, 
immediately in front of the orator during the.ts:o4i04aa:a^lid 
fortj_mi nutes of its delivery. The Senate Chamber, floor 
and lobby, was crowded to its utmost capacity, and never 
'was an audience held more completely spell-bound by the 
magic of eloquence. As he concluded, the magnanimous. 
Carolinian said to me: "He is a wonderful man ! I do not be- 
lieve in a single opinion or sentiment which he has uttered: 
and yet, I have been fascinated by his genius, his varied and 
great powers. I would give fifty dollars any day to witness 
such an exhibition." 

But the more staid powers of mind, of a very superior 
order, Mr. Corwin also possessed. Discrimination, judg- 
ment, thought, argumentation, the complex reasoning power, 
he did not cultivate with patient, incessant, and severe study; 
he was allured from that discipline by too much revelling 
in the exercise of his other and more brilliant faculties. The 
former, from this course, were not only somewhat neglected 
by him, but in their real development they were seemingly 
diminished by the extraordinary proportions of the latter. 
But for his transcendent greatness in the one, he would have 
been great in the other class. What he wanted to ;iiake him 
pre-eminently efficient and useful was a strong and compell- 
ing will. In his moral structure, Mr. Coiavix was truly great 
and noble, (lentle, benevolent, genial, truthful, just and 
conscientious in all things. His private life was not only 
spotless, but it was illustrated by the practice of all the virtues 
and the performance of every duty. He was a patriot with- 
out sectionalism, and a friend of universal liberty and a 
philanthropist without fanaticism. He had read deeply the 
Constitution, and comprehended truly the principles and 
spirit of our blended system of government; and whilst he 
upheld firmly all the powers delegated by the Constitution 
to the Federal Government, he neither surrendered nor com- 
promised any others, but claimed the whole residue for the 
States and the people. He held the Constitution to be the 



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j)aramoiiiit law of the land in all its changes and conditions, 
and every form of law or rule in conflict with it, by what- 
ever authority prescribed, to be void and of no effect. He 
loved order, liberty, peace, and security ; was opposed to 
violence, aggression, internal convulsion, and civil war; and 
if contending factions had heeded his counsels, the country 
would have escaped all the crime and desolation of the 
greatest rebellion recorded in history. He condemned the 
madness of both parties in bringing it on, and the reckless- 
ness with which they fought it; and had gloomy doubts 
whether the " Liberty and Union" of our country, which for 
the time it has overthrown, will ever be restored. 

In the social circle, he ever presided by the silent ac- 
quiescence of all. The resources of his wit and humor, the 
stores of his historical and literary reading, of traditional 
incident and anecdote, the copious flow of his language, his 
striking and ever var3''ing illustrations of every topic of con- 
versation from his exhaustless magazine, his modest}', 
geniality, and kindliness made him peerless as a conversa- 
tionalist. No one could create such a " feast of reason and 
flow of soul" as he. An evening with Corwin was a kind of 
epoch with the old and the young, and abided with them a 
bright and pleasant recollection, often drawn upon and in- 
creasing the store of happinesss. 

A native of Kentucky, she has ever cherished him with 
affection and pride as one of her most gifted sons. He went 
forth in his childhood from his noble mother, uneducated, 
undeveloped, but endowed by nature with genius and fine 
moral structure. He has fought the "battle of life" with 
consummate skill, fidelity, and success, and with a knightly 
courtesy that was never surpassed. I have associated with 
him in the abandon of the old congressional messes of Wash- 
ington. I have listened to and learned from him in the social 
circle, in the Hall of the House and the Chamber of the Senate, 
in the courts, in the old stage coaches during the depths of the 
night amidst the mountain solitudes of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland. I have seen him enchain and sway the multitude 
as no other man could, on the occasion of the monster Day- 
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ton barbaeue of 1843, by his wit and pathos, and popular 
eloquence. It was my good fortune to fall in with him and 
his travelling companion, Mr. Conger, of Michigan, at Rose- 
wood, on his last journey to this city, to have occupied the 
same car, and to have had much conversation with him on 
public and social matters ; and yesterday it was my sorrow- 
ful privilege to see him die. During our recent travel I 
observed some corporeal and intellectual sluggishness in Mr. 
CoRWiN, but no other change. He had the same great, 
varied, and splendid intellectual powers, and the same mas- 
terly command of them when he called them to his service. 
The same interpretation of the Constitution and the same 
principles of statesmanship wdiich he had learned from 
Washington and Marshall, from Clay and "Webster. He 
passed the same judgment of condemnation upon the late 
terrible war, upon its authors, and the manner in which it 
was waged on both sides. 

Thomas Corwin lived and died a great and good man, an 
incorruptible patriot, an enlightened and conservative 'states- 
man ! 

Senator Davis was followed by the Hon. Reverdy 
Johnson, Senator from Maryland, who made a very 
touching address, alluding to his long continued friend- 
ship for him and eloquently portraying the virtues of 
the deceased. 

The committee returning, reported the following- 
resolutions : 

Resolved, That Ave have learned with deepest sorrow of 
the death of Thomas Corwin, of Ohio; a mail whose eminent 
ability as a statesman, in all the various positions of legisla- 
tor. Governor of his State, Cabinet Minister, and diplomatist, 
whose surpassing eloquence, and whose great services to 
the Government and people secured for him a reputation 
broad as the whole country, while his personal worth and 



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character endeared him to all who ever enjoyed his society 
or his friendship. 

Resolved, That from a sincere desire to show every mark 
of respect due to his memory, we will attend his funeral 
obsequies by accompanying his remains, when removed for 
conveyance to his home, at such time as may be appointed. 

Resolved, That a committee of five citizens be appointed 
by the chairman to make suitable arrangements for the 
occasion. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be communicated 
by the chairman of this meeting to the widow and family of 
the deceased, with the expression to them of our warmest 
sympathy and condolence with them in their great bereave- 
ment. 

The resolutions being read and adopted, the Hon. 
John Sherman rose, and made following remarks: 

Mr. Chairman: I would not do justice to my feelings did 
I not add a few words to the tribute already paid to the 
memory of our deceased friend. His death is too recent for 
us to pronounce his eulog}''. We nov*' forget the high posi- 
tions he has occupied, and only think of the warm genial 
friend, associate, and companion. He so recently mingled 
with us in social life that we do not realize that he is dead. 
Many of us were with him on last Friday evening, in a com- 
pany composed mostly of citizens of Ohio, and of his warm 
personal friends. How cheerfully, how happily, he exchanged 
greetings with all. "Wherever he moved he was the centre 
of a listening audience, who were delighted with his joyous 
humor. Who could anticipate that death would so soon set 
its seal upon him ; and yet, in a moment, while in apparent 
health and in the full flow of his genial nature he was struck 
with paralysis. He never spoke from that hour. He suflered 
no pain, but tranquilly breathed out his unconscious life 
surrounded by warm friends, without an enemy, and with a 
record of honor and usefulness of which his children may 
well be proud. 



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Sir, I renieinl)er very well tlie first time I met Mr. Corwin. 
It was during- the memorable political contest of 1840. He 
was in the zenith of his wonderful powers as a popular orator. 
Then a mere lad, I listened to him with the enthusiasm he 
always inspired, and on being introduced to him he with 
deep feeling mentioned another death-bed scene, in which 
he, a young lawyer, watched over the short illness and suddeu 
deat]i of my father. The secret of his power to move the hearts 
of others, was that he possessed a warm and generous heart 
himself. And now, sir, the people of Ohio, as they hear of 
his death, will not mourn so much for a great man gone as 
they will for the loss of a noble, generous son who would do 
no man an injury, and whose fault, if fault it be, was a too 
ready yielding to the claims of friendship and to the voice 
of compassion. 

No man was more trusted by the people of Ohio than Mr. 
CoRWiN has been. Long a leading lawyer in a populous 
part of the State; then a Representative, Governor, Senator, 
Secretary, Minister Plenipotentiary. He climbed the ladder 
of distinction by his unaided exertions. No. academic hand 
smoothed the way ; as a popular orator, he was without a rival ; 
no one could so move an audience carrying them along with 
him from grave to gay. Most of those around me have 
listened to his voice, and no voice like his will linger in their 
memory. 

Mr. CoRWiN survived all the enmities of his political life. 
The contests which he waged left no bitterness behind; and 
now, when he is dead, the sentiment of these resolutions 
will be responded to by all shades of opinion and all classes 
of our citizens. Sir, when I look around me, and see mingled 
with the citizens of our own State distinguished citizens of 
other States, who have been associated with him in the high 
counsels of the Government, and who now meet with us to 
perform for him the last offices of human friendship, I feel 
that they should pronounce his eulogy. We are but pupils 
treading closely upon the footsteps of the generation of men 
now dropping awa}', but who lived long enough to close a 
series of events that will mark their day as an epoch in 



history. In tlie preparatory scenes of this history, Mr. 
CoRWiN acted his part with eminent distinction. His kindred 
and friends can follow him to the grave without blushing for 
his memory. Sir, the people of Ohio will deeply sympa- 
thize with us in secondiiig these resolutions. 

The Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, 
arose, and with much emotion delivered the following 
tribute : 

Mr. Chairman : It was a dissevered leaf of a sheet of 
note-paper which appeared to have been thrown casu- 
ally into the Cabinet when in session to-day, from which 
I learned that at three o'clock this afternoon a meeting 
would be held here of representatives and citizens of Ohio 
and of the friends and relatives of the deceased, to take 
proper measures for the removal of his remains to a final 
resting place. I came here upon that notice, because I was 
one of those friends, and as such felt a concern on the occa- 
sion, and as I always feel when a citizen of any State dies 
here at the capital, who, being my friend, was, like myself, 
temporarily encamped here while engaged in the public ser- 
vice. We all are strangers here, but happilj' have our homes 
among those in distant parts of the country, who know us 
and love us best. Of course, I had not intended or expected 
to speak here, for I thought the meeting was one for action 
and not speaking ; nevertheless, citizens have spoken, who, 
like myself, belong to other States than Ohio, and I have been 
referred to as one other such person who could bear testi- 
mony to the civic achievements of the deceased. To remain 
silent under such circumstances would be to imply that the 
death of Mr. Corwin was a matter of indiiference to me, or 
at least a matter of unconcern to the people of the great 
State with whom I am a citizen identified, Mr. Sherman 
has truly said that I knew Mr. Corwin well. I may, there- 
fore, justly say that I concur in all that was said by him, by 
Mr. Schenck, by Mr. Johnson of Maryland, and by Mr. 



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Davis of Kentucky, in regard to the eloquence, the wit, 
humor, the generosity, the amiabilit\% and the genius of the 
deceased. These attractions of Mr. Corwin cannot be over- 
valued. Tliej would appropriately grace the funeral dis- 
course which would be pronounced upon him among his 
friends and kindred in his own State of Ohio. Here, how- 
ever, at this capital, 1 have a painful consciousness that we 
are weighing the merits of the deceased, not as a friend or 
neighbor, but as a statesman and a citizen. Here all our 
thoughts are exercised upon public cases, and we study men 
exclusively in their relation to their interests and to our 
countr}'. Eloquence, wit, humor, gentleness, amiability, and 
genius are personal attractions, wdiich, like those of feature 
and form, will pass away and leave no impression ; they are 
domestic, or at best social in character and effect ; but here 
the question is not what any one of us sacredly has been, but 
what he has done, or what he has attempted to do for his 
country and for mankind. Eloquence and every other talent 
are but instruments in what we do or attempt to do. The 
question will not long be asked how we wore these instru- 
ments, but with what eifect we used them. Do not think I 
underrate talents or genius ; Heaven knows I should not like 
to be divested of the estimation accorded to me for the 
small portion of them that I myself possess, but I am think- 
ing now, not of what Thomas Corwin was to his friends, 
but what he is, though dead, to his country in its future 
generations, and to his race. The period in which we live 
as public men has brought into public exercise two cardinal 
passions, love of country and love of humanity. The task 
of the patriot has been to reconcile and combine these two 
sentiments or passions as motives and guides of political 
action. We have had a class of men in our country — alas, 
that it should be so, and alas that that class should have 
been so large — who repudiated both passions, and who for 
love of countr}^ substituted devotion to human slavery. I 
do not now reproach them, they have had their retribution, 
and I well know that that retribution is adequate to produce 
penitence and reformation. I notice them only to say they 



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are not here. Thomas CoRWiisr, tboiigli the most conuneud- 
able of men, had no friends among those who were ,the 
enemies of his country or humanity. It has been well said 
here that on occasions his action was disapproved by the 
popular judgment, either because it was deemed not suffici- 
ently patriotic, or because it was deemed not sufficiently 
philanthropic. These observations enable me to direct your 
attention to the hinge upon which his and all our own 
public characters turn. The sentiments of devotion to 
country and devotion to humanity must be cherished at one 
and the same time. I appeal now to ever}- one here, if when 
Thomas Corwin was censured for supposed want of patriot- 
ism the real motive of his action was not that, in his judg- 
ment, the integrity of his country demanded at that time the 
less and the cause of humanity required at his hands the 
more effective service, and whether, when he was afterwards 
censured for supposed lukewarmness in the cause of hu- 
manity, the real motive of his action was not that then, in his 
judgment, a blundering, falling, sinking country demanded 
effort more earnestly than the general cause of humanity. 
In each case, was not that which was complained of too 
great(earnestnes3 in the special cause which ho then was 
advocating than was deemed, at the moment, compatible 
with the required earnestness in the rival cause. God 
knows, Mr. Chairman, that I think both causes have during 
the whole time been in such jeopardy as to require the highest 
energies of the noblest natures in the Republic. Seeing this, 
I have learned the lesson of charity toward political asso- 
ciates, and so that I was sure that each associate was in fact 
true to both causes. I have learned the charity of allowing 
to them respectively the privilege of discriminating accord- 
ing to exigencies which cause, at the particular moment, 
most needed effort. When Thomas Corwin was thought 
unpatriotic because he opposed the American war against v^ 
Mexico, he was then trying to save the cause of humanity 
against the encroachments of slavery. When thought to be 
most compromising with the invasion of Mexico by France, 
he was then studying most earnestly how to prevent the 



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dismemberment of his own country — a catastrophe wliich it 
is clear wouhl involve a common ruin to that country and to 
the cause of humanity. 

It is not for you, Mr. Chairman, nor for me, nor for the 
eotemporaries of Corwin on this occasion to adjust the 
balance and determine how far he was wise and how far he 
was unwise on those particular questions. It is enough for 
us to know that in a highly-excited state of a public feeling, 
which was virtuous .reconciliation between those two great 
passions was practically impossible. Posterity will adjust 
that balance for him. It is enough for a noble fame that if 
he erred on either side it was error of judgment in the choice 
made at a critical moment between two sentiments which 
were equally noble, and of which exigencies alone deter- 
mined which ought to be practiced at the moment, and which 
ought to be pretermitted. It is enough for us to know that 
no man has struck braver or more eifective blows than he 
did, equally against the assailants of the Union and the 
armed forces of African slavery. You and I, Mr. Chairman, 
are in the same category, and the same tribunal must decide 
for us the same question which it is to decide for him. The 
simple question whether at any certain time or in any partic- 
ular crisis we have given to the cause of our country ener- 
gies which might have been more justly bestowed upon 
the cause of humanity, or whether we have, in advancing 
the cause of humanity in such a crisis, been guilty of neg- 
lecting any effort that could have been more reasonably 
made to secure the salvation of our country from eminent 
peril. For myself, and I think for you, and for every man 
who has performed a part in this fearful time in wdiich our 
country has been saved from destruction, and human slavery 
has been absolutely abolished, I can only hope that if we 
shall be found to have committed errors of administration, 
those errors will be found to have been such as were errone- 
ously attributed to him, and that we have erred uninten- 
tionally in deciding which of those two great causes at 
particular junctures were most imminently imperiled. 



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The following gentlemen were named as Committee 
of Arrangements for the Funeral : 

James C. Wetmore, Ohio State Military Agent at Wash- 
ington. 

Bvt. Brig. Gen. Durbin Ward, U. S. Vols. 

Hon. C. P. James, of Cincinnati. 

H. M. Sladt^, Esq., of Cleveland. 

Maj. John Coon, Additional Paymaster U. S. A., of Cleve- 
land. 

Committee to attend the remains to Ohio. 

Hon. R. B. Hayes, ^ 

Hon. Benjamin Eggleston, •' Representatives in 

Hon. Samuel Shellabarger, [ Congress from Ohio. 

Hon. James A. Garfield, j 

Major Swain. 

We deem it, as the compiler of this brief Memorial 
of Mr. CoRWiN, quite appropriate to give in this con- 
nection, the circumstances attending the last hours of 
his eventful life. 

He died at the residence of Mr. James C. Wetmore, 
where he had been invited to pass an evening sociably 
with the Ohio Delegation in Congress and other distin- 
guished gentlemen of that State, accounts of which 
were very graphically given at the time by the Hon. 
Samuel Shellabarger, M. C, for the Ohio State Jour- 
nal, and by Wm. Whitel0w Reid, Esq., for the Cin- ''l^ 
cinnati Gazette. We regret we have not a cojDy of 
that written by Mr. Shellabarger to give with the 
following by Mr, Reid : 



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Washington, Dec. 17.' 
The social party at Mr. Wetmore's the other evening, which 
was destined to end so tragicall}^, was one of the pleasantest 
and most brilliant assemblages of distinguished Ohioans ever 
gathered under one roof at the Capital. The Supreme Court, 
Cabinet, Senate, House, Bar, and Arm}^ combined to grace 
the occasion. The great head of one of the three co-ordinate 
divisions of our ISTational Government mingled in the crowd. 
Three ex-Governors of Ohio were for a time in a little group 
together — a group (never, alas! to be gathered again) that 
called up how much of the State's greatness and historic re- 
nown ! Two ex-Secretaries of the Treasurj- were there. The 
distinguished figure of the Ohioan who battered down Fort 
Sumter was conspicuous;* the Paymaster General of the 
army,f the Monitor of Maryland,! the chief of staff whose 
name is inseparably associated with Chickamauga, § furnished 
other centres in a representation of the army befitting a State 
which has contributed half the leadino; o;enerals to the war. 
Senators were there whose career is part of the nation's best 
history. There were old men, whose biographies record 
the political life of the State ; young men who had grown 
up to the responsibilities and work the older were leaving, 
ornaments of the bench and of the bar. Greetings were 
everywhere cordial, wit and anecdote and genial chat 
filled the busy air; it was more like a rare reunion of Col- 
lege Alumni than like a gathering of many and worldly 
politicians. But the wit and anecdote were to be hushed by 
one of those awful strokes Avhich, as the greatest of Eng- 
lish rhetoricians said in his speech at Bristol, "feelingly 
tell us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue." 
Of all this brilliant assemblage a plain old lawyer, without 
place or power, was the inspiring soul. Old political antag- 
onists and rivals met him with warm cordiality; younger 
politicians hung upon his words; and when they seated him 

*Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gillmore, U. S. A. 
fMaj. Gen. B. W. Brice, U. S. A. 
JMaj. Gen. Robert C. Schenck. 
?Maj. Gen. .Tames A. Garfield. 



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ill an easy chair by the wall, half the company clustered 
about to listen to the rare talk or watch the wonderful play 
of his features. With some of those present he had risen 
to a plane above the jealousies and contest of their earlier 
years; to the younger he had come down as a great tradi- 
tion. To most, perhaps, of those present, the displays which 
had ranked him, in the estimation of the generation now 
passing away, but a little lower than Webster or Clay in 
intellectual grasp, and in surpassing eloquence above them 
both, were familiar only as stories their fathers told about 
the "Tom Corwin" oi their affectionate remembrance. 

Representative in the Legislature of his State at twenty- 
eight, member of Congress at thirty-seven. Governor of his 
State at forty-six, United States Senator at fiftj^-one, Secretary 
of the Treasury at fifty-six, the old man had run the round 
of honors the State and nation had to bestow. Emerging 
from his voluntary retiracy at sixty-five, he sought what an 
old man's counsels might do to quell the rising storm. 
Then, when it was seen how the waves washed over old 
landmarks, or stranded them among the debris on the 
beach, his mature wisdom had been invoked at sixty-seven, 
to aid the struggling Republic, in whose defense, in his 
younger years, he had won his brightest laurels. 

" The Americans have no memories," said a distinguished 
foreigner. Let me seize the opportunity to delay the sad 
story I have to tell, while I recall a single passage from that 
most wonderful speech, in many respects, in the annals of 
American eloquence, the "bloody hands and hospitable 
graves " speech, which during the childhood of some of us, 
seemed almost the only staple of political discussion in the 
West' Replying to the demand of slavery for " more room," 
after a striking sketch of the fillibusters of history, and an 
elaborate picture of Napoleon, the greatest of them, he ex- 
claimed: 

" On the wings of a tempest that raged with unwonted 
fury, up to the throne of the only Power that controlled him 
while he lived, went the fiery soul of that wonderful warrior, 
another witness to the existence of that eternal decree that 



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they wlio do not rule in righteousness shall perish from the 
earth. lie has found ' room' at last. And France, she too 
has found ' room.' Her eagles no longer float along the 
banks of the Danube, the Po, and the Borysthenes. They 
have returned home to their old eyrie, between the Alps, 
the Rhine, and the Pyrenees. So shall it be with yours. 
You may carry them to the loftiest peaks of the Cordilleras ; 
they may wave with insolent triumph in the halls of the 
Montezumas ; the armed men of Mexico may quail before 
them; but the weakest hand in Mexico, uplifted in prayer 
to the God of justice, may call down against you a power in 
the presence of which the iron hearts of your warriors shall 
be turned into ashes. * "' * Should we prosecute this 
war, the Korth and the South are brought into collision on 
a point where neither will yield. AVho can foretell or foresee 
the result ? Who so bold or reckless as to look such a con- 
flict in the face unmoved ? * * Sir, rightly considered, 
this is treason. It is a crime to risk the possibility of such 
a contest — a crime of such infernal hue that every other in 
the catalogue of iniquity whitens into virtue by its side. 
* * We stand this day on the crumbling brink of that 
gulf — we see its bloody eddies wheeling and boiling before 
us — shall we not pause before it be too late? How plain 
again is here the path, the only path of duty, of prudence, 
of true patriotism ! Let us abandon all idea of acquiring 
further territory, and, by consequence, cease at once to pros- 
ecute this war. Let us call home our armies, and bring 
them within our own acknowledged limits. Show Mexico 
that you are sincere when you say that you desire nothing 
by conquest. She has learned that she cannot encounter 
you in war, and if she had not, she is too weak to disturb 
you here. Tender her peace, and my life on it, she will ac- 
cept it. But whether she shall or not, you Avill have peace 
without her consent. It is your invasion that has made war ; 
your retreat will restore peace. 

" Let us, then, close forever the approaches of internal feud, 
and so return to the ancient concord and the old way of 
national prosperity and permanent glory. Let us here in 



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this temple consecrated to the Union, perform a solemn lus- 
tration ; let us wash Mexican blood from our hands, and on 
these altars, in the presence of that image of the Father of 
his Country that looks down upon us, swear to preserve 
honorable peace with all the world, and eternal brotherhood 
with each other." 

1^0 wonder that the Mexicans hailed this man as their 
noblest of friends, l^o wonder that this man sent home as 
the fruits of his mission a treaty, which, but for the Senate's 
neglect, would to-day have shown us Republican Mexico, 
free from Maximilian, with an ordered government, and 
have relieved us from the most imminent of our present 
dangers. 

His last work was his wisest. This done, the worn states- 
man came home, seventy-one years old, and poor. He had 
twice retired with affluence, which misfortunes had twice 
snatcbed from him ; and at last he had avowed the determi- 
nation to die in the harness. Indeed, he long looked forward 
to and did not dread such an end. A passage from one of 
Sir Walter Scott's poems, describing the last words of a 
patriot Highlander, fighting against Lowland aggression^ 
was a favorite with him, and had been repeated but a day 
or two ago to a friend. 

And now, my race of terror run, 
Mine be the eve of tropic sun, 
No pale gradations quench his ray, 
No twilight dews his wrath allay ; 
With disc, like battle target red. 
He rushes to his gory bed ; 
Dyes the wide wave with bloody light. 
Then sinks at once and all is night. 

" I am old and infirm," he said a few days ago to Roscoe 
Conkling, " and in the common way of life I must soon 
die. Men will remember me as a joker ! " 

Ohioans, at least, hung about him last Friday evening, 
as if his jokes were very attractive. He was in the best of 
spirits, and looked better than his friends remembered see- 
ing him for mouths. But a few days before he had returned 
from his Ohio home, where he had gone to attend the wed- 



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d'mg of his youngest daugliter. His faculties seemed all 
atti^iied and stimulated by the pleasant incident, as well as 
by the warm and affectionate greetings with which he was 
received. Making his way through the crowd of men who 
had grown into prominence under his eye, he was seated at 
the side of the room, and at once drawn into animated talk. 
His old and favorite law student, General Scheuck, came to 
talk of the home wedding; Chief Justice Chase hastened 
to greet him; Senator Ben. Wade installed himself by his 
side, and begged him to tell a favorite story. " I have not 
seen him for ten years past so much like the old Tom 
CoRwm of my boyhood," said Gen. Durbin Ward, his law 
student and subsequently his partner. " Thei-e's but one 
Tom Corwin in the world," enthusiastically exclaimed 
another, as he moved back a little, out of the group where 
he had been swallowing everj^ syllable. 

Thus surrounded by the brilliant and distinguished in the 
State, old rivals and antagonists meeting him with admiring 
warmth, seeing all about him the men who had grown up 
under him, every one attentive to his lowest tone and 
slightest gesture. Gov. Corwin must have regarded it as one 
of the sunniest episodes in his downward way of life. 

By-aud-by supper was announced. Ben. Wade took his 
arm, helped him at the staircase, and found a seat for him 
on a sofa. He would eat nothing — only taking a couple of 
oysters and a glass of water. But his flow of genial anec- 
dote and sparkling wit, varied now and then by one of those 
touches of pathos, or one of those suggestive and far-reach- 
ing political reflections he knew so well how to apply, con- 
tinued with unabated brilliancy. Some of the Ohio belles 
who grace the capital were on the other side of the room ; 
but even from them he drew away listeners, till he and. 
Wade, who sat beside him on the sofa, were fairly hemmed 
in by a circle that embraced half the people in the room. 
His tones, however, grew unusually low; and men were 
bending down, trying to catch every syllable. 

He had been talking of Brazil; and, replying to a remark 



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of OUT Consul at Rio Jnneiro,* who hnd just been spcakin:^ 
to him of Don Pedro, the Emperor, he said: "Yes, Don 
Pedro, I'm sure, is a fine man ; what, in fact, we would call, 
sir, (with the indescribable epitome of all possible jokes in 
the sudden play of his features,) in or.r country, a popular 
jnan. Why, sir, so highly do I rate his popular qualities, 
that if we had him in Warren count}^, we'd elect him 
sheriff — no mean test of popularity, sir." Then he began ' 
to speak of Mexico, first in the same jocose vein, telling 
how, when they began shooting and cutting throats all 
around and within sight of the capital, he came to the con- 
clusion that the country didn't suit a gentleman of steady 
habits, and so he came home. "A Frenchman came to 
me — smart fellow whom Maximilian sent. He would be so 
distressed if, because the French flag came, the American 
flag should leave — confound his politeness ! But, if I had 
to govern Mexico under the empire, Pd make that French- 
man emperor." From this he diverged into more serious 
talk of Mexican affairs ; speaking with his old fervor, and 
gesticulating freely. For a few sentences his tones gradually 
grew lower, so that even Wade, sitting at his side, could not 
hear ; then his head dropped on his breast — a common motion 
with him when he had finished a train of thought. 

The strained attention of the circle was broken, and men 
began to notice that the room was oppressively warm. 
Wade rose to get a breath of fresh air, and there was a 
general movement. kSuddenly Gov, CoRwm was observed 
to extend his hands, as if groping in the dark, and to say, 
"Room, a little room; it is very warm." Some one took 
him by the arm and helped him to rise; and a hurried 
wdiisper ran around, " Make room for Gov. CoRwra, he is 
fainting with the heat." One and another aiding him, he 
tottered to the door. Durbin AYard was now trying to hold 
*him up, but his wounded arm was too weak, and he called 
to Garfield ; another took him on the other side, and still 
another sprang down the staircase in front, and helped to 
support his weight. The feet of the stricken old statesman 

* Hon. James Monroe. 



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drago-ed helplessly behind him. Tie was carried in and laid 
down on a bed in an adjacent chamber. His rigbt hand 
was lifted up and laid over his breast; it fell helplessly back 
upon the bed. The case was plain — his whole right side 
was paralyzed. He had not spoken since he asked in the 
supper room for fresh air; but as he noted the shocked 
expression with which those about him saw the right hand 
•fall, he lifted up the other, opened and shut the fingers, 
as if to say, "I know what has happened; but this, you 
see, is all right." 

Some threw up the windows, piled wet towels on his 
forehead and tore open his collar ; others hurried out for 
doctors; still others carefully piled blankets on the lower 
part of his person. 

Observing his wistful look, I bent over and asked him if 
the pillows were properly adjusted, or if we could do any- 
thing more for him till the doctors came. The' response 
was in a whisper, but quite audible, " JSTo, it will do very 
well." Beyond a simple "Yes" or " No," once or twice re- 
peated in answer to questions within the next hour, they 
were his last words. He lay gasping sometimes as if in 
suffocation, then again for a few moments breathing almost 
easily. 

Presently Col, D. W. Bliss, an Army Surgeon, the first 
medical man who could be found, hurried in. He asked 
scarcely a question, lifted the lifeless hand, felt the pulse at 
wrist and temple, and we read his hopeless verdict in his 
face as he turned away to order mustard plasters, and 
Avhatever other poor devices medical skill could bring to 
bear against the inevitable. A few moments later Dr. 
Lincoln entered; then soon after Surgeon General Barnes, 
U. S. A. They agreed on what had been done, and on the 
utter uselessness of all their well-meant efforts. 

So the evening ended — one shocked face after another 
bending in farewell grief over the prostrate form and look- 
ing into the bright e3'es that still took in the scene, and read 
in every pitying look the love these foremost men of his 
State all l^ore him. Postmaster General Dennison, Gen, 



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Durbin Ward and a dozen younger friends remained to 
watch. ; the physicians stood together and hopelessly talked 
of " lesion of the brain ; " the dying Governor and Senator 
and Secretary and Minister lay breathing painfully through 
half paralyzed lungs; two or three stood constantly 
watching his faintest movement, and ready to aid his 
slightest exertion. 

Thus hour after hour wore away. The outer rooms had 
been filled till midnight with anxious guests, unwilling to 
leave, but at last they slowly scattered. About half-past one 
a carriage came dashing up to the door. Gen. Schenck, 
(who had left the party before supper, to keep another 
engagement,) had hurried back, as soon as the sad news 
reached him, to take the first place as watcher by the dying 
bed of his old teacher and life-long friend. 

For some hours there was nausea and vomiting — a com- 
mon eflbrt of nature to relieve itself in cases of apoplexy. 
But the dying man soon grew too weak for these efforts, and 
by three o'clock it was painfully manifest that conciousness 
had entirely ceased. 

Throughout Saturday he lay without stirring his position, 
"save that now and then the left hand would be moved a lit- 
tle. The breathing grew more labored and the whole chest 
heaved convulsively with each inspiration. The eyes were 
closed, and, save that the complexion was a little darker 
than in health, the features were entirely natural. It was 
manifest that he was already beyond the reach of pain. 

It was graceful and fitting that one of the earliest to 
hasten to his bedside, when the sad news spread throughout 
the city, was the Minister of the struggling Republic* the 
dying man had befriended. To catalogue the rest that came 
and Avaited to see the end would be to name half the dis- 
tinguished men gathered in the capital. 

To-day there has been no change, save for the worse. 

The countenance has grown more livid, the pulse is up to 
a hundred and fifty, the breathing is quicker and more con- 

* Senor Romero, Minister Plenipotentiary from Mexico. 

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vulsive, every few moments there comes a strangulation, 
when the dreadful rattle sounds in tlie throat, and then for 
an instant respiration fairly ceases. It is nearly midnight — 
none dare hope that he can last till morning. 

All through the city men are talking of the great man 
who is dying, recalling his triumphs, telling of his eloquence, 
and dwelling admiringly on his matchless powers as a con- 
versationalist — without douht equaled by those of no man 
now in political life on the continent. 

For myself, writing almost within sound of that distress- 
ful breathing, and calling to mind the varied round of bril- 
liant performances thus untimely ending, one passage of an 
old speech, apparently forgotten by the country, comes 
again and again into my mind. Men sometimes accused 
this old man of concessions to Slavery. While he lies there 
dying, let us honor his memory by recalling the grand words 
in which he opposed the Compromise Bill of 1848 : 

" If it were merely a comparison of strength, or contest 
for relative power, I could yield without a struggle. But I 
am called on to lay the foundations of society over a vast 
extent of country. If this work be done wisely now, ages 
unborn shall bless us, and we shall have done in our day 
what experience approved and duty demanded. If this 
work shall be carelessly or badly done, countless millions 
that shall inherit that vast region will hereafter remember 
our folly as their curse ; our names and deeds shall only call 
forth execration and reproach. 

" In the conflict of present opinions I have listened 
patiently to all. Finding myself opposed to some with 
whom I have rarely ever differed before, I have doubted 
myself, re-examined my conclusions, reconsidered all the 
arguments on either side, and I still am obliged to adhere 
to my first impressions, I may say my long cherished opin- 
ions. If I part company with some here Avhom I habitually 
respect, I still find "\vith me the men of the past, whom the 
nation venerated. I stand upon the ordinance of 1787. 
There the path is marked by the blood of the Revolution. 
I stand in company with the * men of eighty-seven,' their 



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locks wet with the mists of the Jordan over which they 
passed ; their garments purple with the waters of the R^d 
Sea through which they led us of old to this land of prom- 
ise. With them to point the way, however dark the present, 
hope shines upon the future; and, discerning their footprints 
in my path, I shall tread it with unfaltering trust." 

Alas ! the tongue that so eloquently defended the Right 
is hushed forever ; the labored breath is failing fast. Let 
us leave him — his own words our aspiration. Let him pass 
through the purple waters of the Red Sea and the mists of 
the Jordan to the land of promise. However dark the 
present, hope shines upon the future ; and — doubt it not — 
he treads his path with unfaltering trust. 

The following account of the Funeral, is taken from 
the Washington ''Chronicle,''^ of Thursday morning, 
December 21, 1865: 

FUNERAL OF HON. THOMAS CORWIN. 

The funeral ceremonies over the remains of Hon. Thomas 
CoRWiN were held yesterday afternoon at the house of Mr. 
Wetmore, 250 F street. During the earlier part of the day 
large numbers of persons, many of them from the deceased's 
own State, others personal or political friends, and still 
others attracted by the interest always attached to the de- 
parted great, gathered to the house to take a last look at 
the features of the dead. 

The body was laid in a handsome coffin of black walnut, 
covered with black cloth, trimmed with silver and lined 
inside with white satin, and was placed in the centre of one 
of the upper rooms. The features wore a calm and placid 
expression, and. retained with considerable distinctness the 
strongly marked lineaments which were familiar to so many 
thousands of people. 

The time for the commencement of the services was fixed 
at three-and-a-half P. M., and as that hour approached the 



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bouse rapidly filled with those who came to do honor to the 
memory of the departed on this last sad occasion. 

Quiet movements of preparation were in progress, mem- 
bers of the committee of arrangements giving instructions 
in an under tone, the undertaker attaching crape to the 
arms of the pall-bearers, and those to whom the privilege 
was accorded going up with muffled step to take their last 
look at the deceased. During the earlier part of the day 
this privilege was general, but after 3 P. M. it was restricted 
to the members of Congress from Ohio and others holding 
high official position, with the personal friends of the 
family. Many who applied had to be refused admission to 
the room, and some appeared to be much disappointed, 
although they recognized the necessity of the arrangement. 
" Can't I see him ? " said one — an Ohio farmer, his appear- 
ance indicated him — " I used to hear him make speeches in 
GUI' county, and I'd like to see him." At the hour appointed 
the services commenced. The Rev. B. F. Morris, (Congre- 
gationalist,) pastor of the church in Ohio attended by Mr. 
CoRWiN and family, oifered the usual prayer, and Rev. John 
P. Lewis, of St. John's Church, read the funeral service. 
It was a scene to be remembered. Around the coffin of 
the departed statesman, within the limits of the little room, 
stood eminent State officials, generals whose names have 
become familiar to the country, judges of the Supreme 
Court, Senators, and Representatives. There was the Sec- 
retary of State, the Commander-in-Chief of the armies, 
Chief Justice Chase — men whose fame is as wide as civil- 
ization. And seated near the coffin were the relatives of 
the dead — his daughter. Miss Louise Corwin, his son-in-law, 
Mr. George R. Sage, and Mrs. Smith, of Baltimore, a cousin 
of Mrs. Corwin, with her son and two daughters. 

The last word of the ritual, so oft repeated and so oft to 
be repeated — so sadly familiar to all our cars — fell from the 
lips of the officiating clergyman; the undertaker took a few 
steps forward toward the coffin, but at this moment a petite 
female figure, clad in deep mourning, glided up. The hand 
gently touched the cold features, the face leaned silently 



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over them — silently for a few moments. Then came a - ''^ep 
sob, and tears fell fast from the overflowing eyes. And 
what tears ! Tears wrung from the depths of a daughter's 
heart ! Hot tears, warmed at the fire of that holiest alFec- 
tion — a daughter's love! Even the cold clay must have 
felt a momentary thrill — a flush of warmth — as those drops- 
fell silently upon the rigid features. 

What a magic and sacred power is human sympathy ! ' 
At the sound of that sobbing voice, eyes which a moment 
before were dry, sufiused and overflowed with the quick- 
springing tears, and answering sobs were heard from every 
part of the room. The sorrowing daughter was quietly re- 
moved from the apartment and the lid closed. The police- 
men assigned to that duty took up the casket containing the 
honored dust, bore it down to the street, and placed it upon 
the waiting hearse. The mourners followed and entered 
their carriages, and the sad procession moved slowly away 
through the slow-dropping rain toward the railroad station, 
at fifteen minutes past 4, p. m. Passing out of the hall on 
the ground floor, we noticed' a colored girl — a servant of the 
family — her head wrapped in a white handkerchief, stand- 
ing in the recess of a side door, hiding her face in her hands, 
and sobbing as if her heart would break. If the generous, 
sympathetic spirit of the deceased could look down upon it, 
the sorroAv of that humble mourner was felt as a erateful 
and acceptable tribute. 

The procession was formed in the following order : 

Committee of Arrangements — Messrs. J. C. Wetmore, 
Durbin Ward, C. P. James, H. M. Slade, and John Coon. 

Committee to attend the remains to the burial place at 
Lebanon, Ohio — Hons. R, B. Hays, Benj. Eggleston, Sam- 
uel Shellabarger, General Garfield, and Major Swain. 

The attending physicians and ofiiciating clergy. 

Thirty Knights Templar, under S. P. Bell, Eminent Com- 
mander of the Washington Commandery, No. 1, and Ezra 
L. Stephens, Eminent Commander of Columbia Command- 
ery, No. 2. 

Pall-bearers as follows : Chief Justice Chase ; Justice 



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iSwayne, of the Supreme Court; Hon. W. H. Seward, Sec- 
retary of State; Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Md. ; Hon, 
Garrett Davis, of Ky. ; Hon. Benj. Wade, of Ohio; Hon. 
John Sherman, of Ohio ; Hon. Richard Wallach, Mayor of 
"Washington; Lieutenant General Grant, General B. W. 
Brice^Hon. W". "W. Seaton; Hon. R. C. Schenck, of Ohio; 
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pa. ; Henry Stanbiiry, Esq., of 
Cincinnati ; Frai^k Taylor, Washington ; Hon. R. P. Spald- 
ing, M. C. 

The corpse on a hearse, followed by a detachment of 
police as guards. 

Mr. Sage, son-in-law, and Miss Louisa Corwin, daughter 
of the deceased, with other relatives. 

Ex-Governors and ex-Lieutenant Governors of and Mem- 
bers of Congress from Ohio, as mourners ; members of the 
Cabinet; Judges of the Supreme Court of the United 
States ; United States Senators ; Judges of the Supreme 
Court for the District of Columbia ; Judges of the Court oi 
Claims ; Members of the House of Representatives ; citizens 
of Ohio ; citizens. 

The procession moved along F street to Fifth, thence bj 
Louisiana and Indiana avenues to the depot. 

Among those present, in addition to those above named 
we noticed Mr. Golley, Register of the Treasury ; Judge 
Holt, Attorney General Speed, General Ewing, and Mr 
Arnoux, private secretary of the deceased, who attendee 
him on his Mexican mission. 







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